deaniks
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December 31st to January 1ST South Pacific The 31st Say the invasion of Rabaul while today saw the capture of Rabaul with this swift victory and after some consideration I've decided to change my plan's a tiny bit. After reading some AAR's and looking at it I realized to conquer New Caledonia I also need to Conquer Fiji. So now the 21ST Div in conjunction with the 144th Rgt will now invade Fiji around the same time Noumea is being invaded. Port Morsbey's invasion is one hex outside of the port tomorrow they will land I anticipate around 1 maybe 2 brigade's there. The KB found some juicy convoy running through the Coral sea sinking lot's of valuable warship's and cargo ships Morning Air attack on TF, near Cooktown at 92,138 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 9 B5N1 Kate x 4 B5N2 Kate x 35 D3A1 Val x 22 Japanese aircraft losses D3A1 Val: 1 damaged Allied Ships AMC Cap des Palmes, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk xAK Arizonan, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk xAK Royal T. Frank, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage xAK Cagou xAP Katoomba, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk xAKL Mawata, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk xAK Peshawur, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk AM Breeze, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk xAK Santa Rita Morning Air attack on TF, near Cooktown at 94,136 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 27 B5N2 Kate x 54 D3A1 Val x 32 Japanese aircraft losses B5N2 Kate: 2 damaged Allied Ships CL Adelaide, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk DD Pope, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage xAP Mataroa, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk xAP Maori, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk xAP Rangatira, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk AM Chevreuil, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Cooktown at 93,137 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 27 B5N2 Kate x 18 D3A1 Val x 25 Japanese aircraft losses B5N2 Kate: 1 damaged D3A1 Val: 3 damaged Allied Ships DD Peary, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk AO Pecos, Bomb hits 11, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk AO Trinity, Torpedo hits 4, and is sunk Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Cooktown at 92,138 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 9 B5N2 Kate x 10 D3A1 Val x 19 Japanese aircraft losses D3A1 Val: 1 damaged Allied Ships xAK Santa Rita, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk xAK Royal T. Frank, Bomb hits 7, and is sunk xAKL Loyaute, on fire xAK Cagou, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk Most of my carrier's used up there torp's lucky for my a lot of my AKE's just finished converting and are heading towards Truk to move to forward base's. Philippines More bombing's of Clark. the 192 tank Battalion. 31 and 11 PA Division and the 4th Marine regiment just moved into Cabanatuan but the Japanese had unit's to stop him from recapturing the base right now it's even number at 12k and 12k but tomorrow a couple more Regiment's of ART and another inf BN will move in to hopefully stop him from running my units out of the hex. SRA The day started off bad the Minando invasion force which was suppose to be Guarded by my BB's were engaged my BB's seemed to be 2 hex's behind that day and well the battle didn't go terrible losing me only 1 xAK's right after and 2 with bad fire's that will be scuttled Day Time Surface Combat, near Manado at 76,99, Range 18,000 Yards Japanese Ships CVE Taiyo, Shell hits 1, heavy fires CS Chitose CL Nagara, Shell hits 4 DD Yukikaze DD Tokitsukaze DD Yamakaze, Shell hits 1, heavy fires APD Hagi, Shell hits 2, heavy fires TB Hayabusa PB Gamitsu Maru #1, Shell hits 1, and is sunk PB Nichi Maru #1 PB Showa Maru #3 PB Showa Maru #5, Shell hits 1, and is sunk xAK Shinryu Maru, Shell hits 1 xAK Tenryu Maru xAK Atago Maru, Shell hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage xAK Meiyo Maru, Shell hits 1 xAK Zyuyo Maru, Shell hits 2, on fire xAKL Hidaka Maru, Shell hits 3, heavy fires xAKL Raizan Maru, Shell hits 1 xAP Haruna Maru, Shell hits 1 Allied Ships CL Java, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage CL De Ruyter, Shell hits 4 CL Marblehead, Shell hits 2 DD Alden DD Barker, Shell hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage DD Bulmer, Shell hits 1 DD Edsall, Shell hits 1, on fire DD John D. Edwards DD Vendetta, Shell hits 2, heavy fires DD Van Ghent, Shell hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage Japanese ground losses: 389 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 12 destroyed, 29 disabled Engineers: 3 destroyed, 3 disabled It could have bin a lot worse since at the time I thought that the Tayio and Chitose were needed for air protection but to my surprise the Soryu and Zuikaku caught up with the invasion force and unleashed there air power against the taskforce for revenge of what happened earlier that day Morning Air attack on TF, near Manado at 75,99 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 16 B5N2 Kate x 35 D3A1 Val x 22 Japanese aircraft losses B5N2 Kate: 5 damaged D3A1 Val: 3 damaged D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed by flak Allied Ships CL Tromp, Bomb hits 2 CL De Ruyter, on fire CL Java, on fire, heavy damage CL Marblehead DD Vendetta, heavy fires DD John D. Edwards, Bomb hits 1 Morning Air attack on TF, near Manado at 75,99 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A5M4 Claude x 9 B5N1 Kate x 7 Allied aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses B5N1 Kate: 1 damaged Allied aircraft losses C.XI-W: 1 destroyed Allied Ships CL De Ruyter, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk CL Marblehead
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